Complete the account of genre.
Croce argued that only ______ works exist. Fowler replied that genres are held together by ______ resemblance rather than by necessary conditions, and that a genre is better described by its ______ than by its rules. Bakhtin added that the ______ is the only major genre still developing.
Word bank: individual · family · exemplars · novel · epic · definitions
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- The nominalist position is that only particulars exist.
- The genre that absorbs and parodies all the others is the one still growing.
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Croce argued that only individual works exist. Fowler replied that genres are held together by family resemblance rather than by necessary conditions, and that a genre is better described by its exemplars than by its rules. Bakhtin added that the novel is the only major genre still developing.
The four blanks reconstruct the argument's repair: the nominalist objection is answered not by producing a better definition but by changing what kind of thing a genre is taken to be.
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